ThaRoadWarrior said: sinnerjfl said: I mean you say that, but there are so many replacement characters who fill that roll at least as well. My pet theory is that she was nerfed ahead of Magneto for Yellow, and/or Ronan for the repeaters, but I don’t think either was really necessary. See my post above about what is and isn’t good.
sinnerjfl said:
entrailbucket said: Here's an example of the kind of thing I'm talking about -- a few short paragraphs to be tacked onto the announcement post for Scarlet Witch (all numbers are just made up):"As part of our regular monitoring of the metagame, we've noticed that Immortal Hulk teams represent an 85% share of the 5* teams used in versus mode. As you know, this exceeds our goal of 60%.In keeping with our new philosophy of introducing counters to solve problems like this (instead of changing characters), we created Scarlet Witch to give players a viable non-Hulk option in Versus mode.If you've invested a lot of resources in Immortal Hulk, don't worry -- we will continue to monitor his usage, and if it falls below 20%, we'll develop a counter for Scarlet Witch."(The counter would be Gamora)Wouldn't that be useful to everyone? Why can't we get something like that? How long would it take? Do they have defined numbers for this? Why do we have to guess about this stuff?
bowla33 said: entrailbucket said: Here's an example of the kind of thing I'm talking about -- a few short paragraphs to be tacked onto the announcement post for Scarlet Witch (all numbers are just made up):"As part of our regular monitoring of the metagame, we've noticed that Immortal Hulk teams represent an 85% share of the 5* teams used in versus mode. As you know, this exceeds our goal of 60%.In keeping with our new philosophy of introducing counters to solve problems like this (instead of changing characters), we created Scarlet Witch to give players a viable non-Hulk option in Versus mode.If you've invested a lot of resources in Immortal Hulk, don't worry -- we will continue to monitor his usage, and if it falls below 20%, we'll develop a counter for Scarlet Witch."(The counter would be Gamora)Wouldn't that be useful to everyone? Why can't we get something like that? How long would it take? Do they have defined numbers for this? Why do we have to guess about this stuff? Because then people will hold them to thier word when things are obviously whacked and the devs don't like to be forthcoming so it's better not to say. Or they'd have to explain why Okoye, Apoc, Kitty, and BRB haven't gotten the nerfs they clearly deserve since they definitely exceed the OML usage rate.
HoundofShadow said: If they do a post and dump on important things, it reflects badly on them. I'm sure we have communication specialists coming out to say what they do is totally unprofessional and they could engage their service for free on how to communicate effectively.
HoundofShadow said: For example, OML's reasons for nerf was due to whatever reasons the dev said, but players believe it was due to healthpack sales. Despite the fact that healthpack sales is not even 10% of the company's revenues and healthpack regenerates every 36 minutes, players today still believe it's due to healthpack sales that got OML nerfed.
HoundofShadow said: Players who accepted those dev's reasons for OML's nerf are few and rare.